Overview
The MEAL Manager will lead on MEAL system development and implementation for all projects in the Field Office, ensuring alignment with SCI MEAL strategies and frameworks. The role focuses on ensuring the quality, effectiveness, and accountability of programs, providing data for evidence-based programming, and driving positive changes in children's lives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on MEAL system development and implementation.
- Lead on all reviews and evaluations of projects.
- Manage MEAL budgeting and recruitment.
- Support proposal writing, logframe development, and reporting.
- Support partners in their MEAL work.
- Capture and communicate lessons learned.
- Oversee the roll out of safe and secure data management systems.
- Ensure compliance with data protection and security policies.
- Oversee the implementation of accountability mechanisms.
- Directly manage MEAL Coordinators.
- Lead capacity building of staff and partners on MEAL.
- Support strategic planning and development processes for MEAL.
- Establish and maintain monitoring and evaluation processes.
- Support proposal design with contributions to log-frame, MEAL plans, and budgets.
- Support the design, development, modification, and oversight of data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting processes.
- Support the rollout of the SCI Project-management platform “PRIME”.
- Support the design, training, and deployment of data collection tools and analysis.
- Be the technical lead for all monitoring and evaluation processes.
- Maintain, review, and oversee accountability systems and mechanisms.
- Oversee the FRM, ensuring it is fit for purpose, child-friendly, and culturally appropriate.
- Ensure staff understand and promote accountability to affected populations.
- Plan, practice, and promote learning from routine monitoring, evaluation, and accountability interventions.
- Support the development of a Research and Assessment agenda.
- Respond to audit requirements and requests with MEAL inputs.
- Manage the process for collation of data across field offices and provide oversight on data quality reviews.
- Lead on timely data analysis, report writing, and review for all project reports.
- Participate in the design, contextualisation, and review of data protection strategies, policies, procedures, and tools.
- Manage the implementation of data protection and security policies across MEAL activities.
- Effectively lead the MEAL team across field offices.
- Prioritize and promote MEAL support, specifically staffing, budgeting, and resourcing.
- Assess capacity building needs of the MEAL team.
- Build capacity of MEAL and associated program teams.
- Maintain a high-level of coordination with project staff, sector leads.
- Manage the coordination with implementing partners to build their internal MEAL capacity.
- Contribute towards the integration of MEAL within SCI.
- Contribute to safe and ethical MEAL and SCI activities.
- Contribute to child-focused programme implementation.
- Contribute to an approach of applied learning and adaptation.
- Contribute to people centred MEAL and SCI activities.
- Contribute to accountable and participatory MEAL and SCI activities.
- Contribute to data protection and security by design.
- Any other tasks as requested by your Line Manager.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in similar position in MEAL including in a first phase emergency response.
- Previous experience of MEAL across multiple locations.
- Previous experience in team management.
- Previous experience of preparing and managing MEAL tools and reports.
- Previous experience on online data collection and management systems.
- Demonstrated experience in leading assessment activities and of designing, monitoring and evaluating integrated programs and sectors of education, child protection and nutrition programmes in emergencies for international NGOs.
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff in MEAL technical skills and in delivering training to partners.
- Experience of representation, including on coordination mechanisms (e.g. Working groups).
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts (Desirable).
- Experience of working with or engaging children in MEAL processes (Desirable).
Qualifications
• Education to Masters level in relevant subject and/or equivalent field experience with a bachelors degree in economics, development, engineering, public health, or similar field.
